AMSTERDAM –
Antarctica has been in place since Wednesday, an enormous iceberg. The piece of ice, that the name of Larsen C, it is just as large as the whole province of Gelderland. That the plate would break had been there for a while to come: there is, since 2011, a giant crack in the ijsrots, 350 meters thick and more than 5,000 square kilometres in size.
The break down of ijsplaten is a natural process, scientists say, that comparing with the growing and breaking of fingernails. The water level changes by breaking down giant plate according to the researchers, also little. Researchers compare the situation in the Antarctic with a glass of cola with ice cubes. If there is a cube to melt, there is not suddenly more moisture in the glass, as it sounds.
The ice shelf Larsen, where C is ten percent of a part is named after the Norwegian whaler Carl Anton Larsen in december 1893, over enter. Want to know more? Take a look at the website of Project Midas, the organization that the situation in Antarctica follows.